| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所 === 85 === Title of Thesis:A Study on the Evolution of the Spanish Total
Page:151 Socialist Workers Party''s Policy towards
European IntegrationKey Word:Spanish Socialist Workers Party,
PSOE,Spanish European PolicyName of Institute: Graduate School
of European studies Tamkang UniversityGraduate Date:June,1997
Degree Conferred:MasterName of Student:Yueh Jung,Lee
Advisor:Dr. Yea Hong,Chen 李岳融
陳雅鴻博士Abstract: As the Spanish Socialists gained
control of the government in 1982, their position towards
European integration had undergone fundamental change.
Regardingthe issue of European security integration, after many
years of opposing NATOmembership,the new in power government
realized that to withdraw Spain from NATO would jeopardize
European unity. This realization led to a reassessment of the
Socialists'' earlier tendency to disparage the western Alliance.
On the otherhand, negotiations for Spanish membership in the EC
yielded results that wereunpalatable to many economic sectors
that traditionally had supported the EC. And to effect
modermization of the Spanish economy,the Socialist government
implemented neo-liberal economic policies at odds with the PSOE''
s previously redistributive plans. To research this
dissertation, I use the historical method of investigationand
documentary techniques. I provide a brief historical review of
Spain''s endless argument towards the issue of "Europeanization"
and show why Spain was kept out of European integration until
1986. I argue that Spain''s historical relationship with the rest
of europe frames the country''s recent foreign policydebates.
In order to analyze this dissertation scientifically,I found
that currenttheorizing on the role of ideas, interests and
knowledge in the political process was valid for serving a good
test in the Spanish case. New knowledge,injected into situations
of uncertainty, made sense of the relationship betweenpolitical
ideas and interests. The Socialists learned that, by admitting
past errors and participating as full partners in European
affairs, they could forge domestic political consensus and long-
term electoral success. The Socialist government''s
eagerness to integrate into the European mainstream helped them
to adjust to some of the unforseen realities of
Europeanintegration. The political linkages among European
security, economic well-being, and responsibilities within NATO
and the EC thus became transparecnt to Spanish decision makers.
In the conclusion, I examined the continuity of Spain''s European
Policy by observing their reaction to those integration
affairsafter 1986.
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